Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 30, 2021

• A fork for the time-zone database?: removing historical time-zone data in the name of "equity" stirs up the community.
• Improvements to GCC's -fanalyzer option: GCC's static analyzer is getting better — a report from the Linux Plumbers conference.
• Two security improvements for GCC: two options for GCC for code hardening.
• Taming the BPF superpowers: enforcing signatures on BPF programs is the wrong solution claims a core BPF developer.
• The 2021 Kernel Maintainers Summit; full coverage from the 2021 maintainers gathering, including:
  • Looking back at the UMN episode
  • Requirements for accelerator drivers
  • The trouble with upstreaming
  • How to recruit more kernel maintainers
  • Using Rust for kernel development
  • Conclusion: is Linus happy?

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Please enjoy this week's edition, and, as always, thank you for supporting LWN.net.